Bournemouth college turns clock back millions of years to become Jurassic Harewood
Students at Harewood College went back to Jurassic times and created a giant dinosaur sculpture which is currently on display in their reception area.
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Unique Victorian steam locomotive arrives on Swanage Railway thanks to the National Railway Museum
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the scrapman’s cutting torch has arrived at the Swanage Railway thanks to the National Railway Museum.
Rare locomotive that starred on stage in ‘The Railway Children’ has been transferred to Swanage Railway
A unique Victorian steam locomotive that escaped the cutting torch thanks to the centenary of London’s Waterloo station – and starred in ‘The Railway Children’ on both sides of the Atlantic – has been transferred to the Swanage Railway by the National Railway Museum.
Shake up in the dinosaur world as new theory suggests they could have originated in Britain and their classifications may be wrong
A radical new theory suggests the first dinosaurs may have originated in the northern hemisphere, possibly Britain, rather than in the southern hemisphere as previously thought and their grouping, accepted for 130 years, could be wrong.
Rudderly wonderful: 17th century Swash Channel Wreck Rudder on show at Poole
Poole Museum will officially unveil the Swash Channel Wreck Rudder on 22 March and it will be on display at Poole Museum from 23 March.
Verwood raises the flag to celebrate Commonwealth Day
Residents along with two Verwood schools joined the mayor and deputy mayor of the town to celebrate Commonwealth Day today, 13 March.
SCHOOL’S HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL EVENTS
On Thursday 26 January, the day before Holocaust Memorial day, QE School in Wimborne felt honoured to welcome Joanna Millan, a survivor of Terezin concentration camp.
Napoli remembered – 10 Years On
NEWS FEED Consider this nightmare scenario – a huge container ship heading down the English Channel is severely damaged in a storm and forced to come ashore on Dorset’s famous Jurassic Coast – a World Heritage Coastline. The major maritime incident put the coastal village of Branscombe firmly on the map and sparked a major…
Poole Museum honours the sacrifice of the Great War
Poole Museum has been granted £50,600 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to launch a project on Poole, the First World War and its enduring legacy.
Mala Tribich to speak at Holocaust memorial event in Bournemouth
The main speaker at a Holocaust memorial event to be held in Bournemouth will be Mala Tribich MBE. She was one of around 60,000 prisoners freed from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division, in the closing stages of the Second World War.